I've done this SO I DON'T STEAL FROM OTHERS NOR BE SUBTLETY INFLUENCED BY OTHER WRITERS.
Like I said in regards to my artwork, I don't believe that people who CREATE. Should be FUNNELED THROUGH "SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES". Because it turns THEM into THE ALREADY EXISTED AND NOW GONE, instead of THEM BRINGING THEIR CREATIVE VIEWS AND SUCH TO THE TABLE.
I just needed to type that right quick. Now!? Lemme get moving! Because the time DISAPPEARS REAL FAST WHEN I'M GETTING READY IN THE MORNING. And this morning I wanna cook myself some BREAKFAST and not "eat on the go".
Oh and just something OF NOTE regarding one of Sylvia Day's books;
Bared to You is a 2012 New York Times bestselling erotic new adult romance novel by veteran writer Sylvia Day, focusing on the complicated relationship between two twentysomething protagonists with equally abusive pasts.[1] The novel was initially self-published on April 3, 2012 by Day, with Berkley Books re-publishing the book on June 12, 2012 with an initial print run of 500,000 copies.[2][3] Day has stated that Bared to You will be the first novel in her Crossfire series, with the follow-up novel, Reflected in You, published in October 2012.[4][5] The Crossfire series sold five million English-language copies in 2012 and international rights were licensed in thirty-eight territories as of January 2013.[6]
Bared to You was declared Penguin UK's "fastest selling paperback for a decade"[7] and Penguin Group (USA) reports that Bared to You is Berkley's biggest breakout book of 2012.[8] In December 2012, Amazon.comannounced that Bared to You was #4 on the e-tailer's list of top 10 best-selling books of 2012 overall (print and Kindle combined),[9] Apple announced that Bared to You was #5 on iTunes' Top Ten Books of the Year,[10]and Nielsen announced that Bared to You was #7 on Bookscan's Top 10 Print Book Sales of 2012 – Adult Fiction.[11]
Bared to You was selected by Amazon's editors as the #1 Best Book of the Year So Far in Romance, covering the period between January through to July of the year 2012. It remained on Amazon's Best Books of the Yearin Romance end-of-year list covering the entire year of 2012.[13] Bared to You was nominated for the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance[14] and Day herself was nominated for Best Goodreads Author.
RT Book Reviews praised the book's characters, stating, "Day creates two multidimensional characters in heroine Eva and hero Gideon, whose successful and attractive exteriors hide traumatized pasts. Especially notable is Day's portrayal of Eva. The heroine is a rape survivor who is able to independently overcome her abuse and find a full and fulfilling sex life.",[15] while a reviewer for The Guardian criticized the book as "banal".[16] The Independent also criticized some of the book's elements as "easy to mock" but praised Day's writing and noted that the relationship was "at least healthier than the dysfunctional wreck of Fifty Shades".[17]
Erotic Trend in 2012
Some news sources have commented on the similar marketing strategies used with the Crossfire series and Fifty Shades trilogy,[21] with The Daily Beast remarking that Berkley marketed the book as a "Fifty Shades clone, down to its gray book jacket featuring a pair of cuff links and the tagline: “He possessed me and obsessed me."[22] Both series are published by Penguin Random House.
The global success of both Crossfire and Fifty Shades spurred a wave of erotic releases in 2012, with many imitating the two series' content and packaging, but, as The Guardian noted, "other houses' efforts made little impact."[23]
yyyLooking at this SNIPPET I pasted up here, she's an erotic romance and fantasy writer AMONG other genres. But when I saw her face on the billboard staring BLANKLY AT ME...?
I'm sorry but I was like "Oh god, another woman romance writer writing shit that is too far from what happens in reality."
I just didn't get a feeling of "This woman is a great writer." I just got the sense that she is able to connect with WOMEN in a way that HURTS THEM BY INDULGING THEIR FANTASIES IN A SELFISH IRRESPONSIBLE WAY. Mind you, I have NO CLUE WHO SHE IS or WAS or WHATEVER. But the trends have been to write books that make women feel ENTITLED TO BE SELFISH AND IT IS OKAY. Then the MEN are MEN for as long as they're assholes and then HE "LEARNS HIS LESSON AND BETTERS HIMSELF TO BE ABLE TO BE WITH HER", when?
That isn't how shit ever happens in MOST INSTANCES in the real world. MOST SHITTY-MEN STAY SHITTY until they encounter a woman THAT THEY WANT, NOT AND SHE MAKES IT CLEAR CLEAN UP YOUR ACT AND MAYBE WE CAN TALK.
I dunno, this is just the way I felt IMMEDIATELY UPON seeing this woman and her lame ass billboard and it was clear her billboard was "SUPPOSEDLY CATERED TO WOMEN". I felt NO INKLING THAT HER WORKS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME OR OTHER MEN. I was TEMPTED to start doing a Q&A with the other commuters standing there with me JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT AND THIS WOMAN WRITER.
I just...?
Wasn't impressed.
At all.
And yes I understand I am "supposedly", nothing or a nobody.
However THAT ISN'T TRUE because I can or could be a potential CUSTOMER for this woman.
But I realized by the impression that I got from the billboard that I AM NOT THE TYPE OF CUSTOMER SHE'S TRYING TO REACH, so?
I left it at that.
LEMME GET MOVING!
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